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The journey to Nintendo Switch

Friday Facts #370 - The journey to Nintendo Switch | Factorio.
We have a long history of trying to bring Factorio to other platforms, including consoles and mobile phones (not including April Fools). We even worked with some external companies, but the projects never even got to the point where they would run technically, let alone the complicated part of making the game playable using controllers or touch screen. After all the attempts, we even had a Friday Facts prepared that was going to say something along the lines of “we don’t plan to bring Factorio to other platforms”.

The journey to Nintendo Switch Twinsen

I am a big fan of the Nintendo Switch system, especially the detachable Joy-Con controllers, which you can hold one in each hand. Porting Factorio to Nintendo Switch was something I had in mind…

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